I am delighted to hear that a Confraternity of Catholic
Clergy (who wish to remain faithful to the Church and its teachings) has
been set up in Ireland
by Fr. Gerard Deighan. This was established during a meeting of Priests
in Knock Shrine in October last. This Confraternity would offer mutual
support and encouragement for Priests.

I do hope in the future that they would also consider a lay
associate membership similar to the Confraternity in Australia,
to help support and pray for Priests and not interfere with their Priestly
ministry. We really have too much clericalisation of the laity in Ireland
and it is destroying Parish life, interfering with the ministry of Priests and
also discouraging Vocations.

Let us pray for Fr. Gerard Deighan and those Priests
involved in the new Confraternity and ask Our Lord and Our Lady, the Mother of
all Priests to bless and protect and to bring forth great fruit from this new
apostolate.

Bishops, Priests and Deacons can join this Confraternity
also. Any Priest or Deacon who wishes to join or if you wish to enquire
more about the Confraternity you can email them at ccceire@gmail.com.

There is proof the footage of the alleged chemical attack in
Syria was
fabricated, Mother Agnes Mariam el-Salib, mother superior of St. James
Monastery in Qara, Syria,
told RT. She says she is about to submit her findings to the UN.

Mother Agnes, a catholic nun, who has been living in Syria
for 20 years and has been reporting actively on what has been going on in the
war-ravaged country, says she carefully studied the video featuring allegedly
victims of the chemical weapons attack in the Syrian village of Guta in August
and now questions its authenticity.

In her interview with RT, Mother Agnes doubts so much
footage could have been taken in so little time, and asks where parents of the
supposedly dead children are. She promises to send her report to the UN.

The nun is indignant with the world media for apparently
turning a blind eye to the Latakia massacre by rebel extremists, which left 500
civilians including women and children dead.

Russia’s
Foreign Ministry has called on the international community to pay attention to
revelations made by Mother Agnes Mariam el-Salib.

In Darmstadt, Germany,
police officers armed with guns and a battering ram stormed a home and seized
four children because the family living there had defied a national ban on
homeschooling. The officers were accompanied by a throng of social workers and
special agents.

The terrifying team of about 20 government officials
forcibly removed all four of the family’s children at around breakfast time on
Thursday morning, according to a press release from the Home School
Legal Defense Association (HSLDA).

The sole reason for the brutal abduction of the children is
that the parents, Dirk and Petra Wunderlich, have defied the German
government’s ban on home education. There are no claims of mistreatment or
neglect.

This is the horror of abortion and what goes on throughout the world.
It is horrific and sickening to the core. It is unbelievable that Doctors and Counsellors can sit
discussing the termination of a babys life in such cold terms. What have we humans become.
Its beyond belief.

DUBLIN, May 2, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Irish pro-life groups
have slammed the government for

presenting draft legislation that ignores
expert “medical evidence” that abortion is no cure for suicidal ideation and allows
the direct killing of Irish children.

The coalition government’s bill was released to the public
yesterday and includes no restrictions on gestational age limits, allowing
abortions to be carried out through all nine months of pregnancy.

The draft legislation says it is not an offense to take
action “as a result of which unborn human life is ended.” Under the current
law, it is possible for a doctor to induce early labor if it is medically
warranted to save the mother’s life, but they are required to give equal
consideration to the life of both mother and child. The new bill will allow
doctors to act directly to end the life of the child, based only on a demand
for abortion, backed up by a threat of suicide.

Former minister of State for primary care Róisín Shortall
has said she finds “abhorrent” the lack of gestational time limits in proposed
abortion legislation within which terminations should be allowed in cases where
the woman is suicidal.

Ms Shortall, who has lost the Labour Party whip, called for
a referendum on the matter to be held in October.

“I think I would speak for the majority of people in saying
I would find the absence of a gestational time limit abhorrent,” she said

An estimated one million people took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to demonstrate against France's new same-sex marriage legislation. The law, which allows same-sex partners to wed and adopt, had already been in effect for over a week. President François Hollande signed it into law on May 18.

Due to the huge interest in Healing in our Church, and the amount of strange healing philosophies out there I decided to research more into this area and have started a blog on this subject. I try to show where people can go to receive Healing and also those places and things to avoid...

Excerpts of the Pope's Sermon on the Feast of the Sacred Heart 2010

The most important of those texts in today’s liturgy is Psalm 23(22) – “The Lord is my shepherd” – in which Israel at prayer received God’s self-revelation as shepherd, and made this the guide of its own life. “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want”: this first verse expresses joy and gratitude for the fact that God is present to and concerned for us. The reading from the Book of Ezechiel begins with the same theme: “I myself will look after and tend my sheep” (Ez 34:11). God personally looks after me, after us, after all mankind. I am not abandoned, adrift in the universe and in a society which leaves me ever more lost and bewildered. God looks after me. He is not a distant God, for whom my life is worthless.

Another part of this sermon

“Your rod and your staff – they comfort me”: the shepherd needs the rod as protection against savage beasts ready to pounce on the flock; against robbers looking for prey. Along with the rod there is the staff which gives support and helps to make difficult crossings. Both of these are likewise part of the Church’s ministry, of the priest’s ministry. The Church too must use the shepherd’s rod, the rod with which he protects the faith against those who falsify it, against currents which lead the flock astray. The use of the rod can actually be a service of love. Today we can see that it has nothing to do with love when conduct unworthy of the priestly life is tolerated. Nor does it have to do with love if heresy is allowed to spread and the faith twisted and chipped away, as if it were something that we ourselves had invented. As if it were no longer God’s gift, the precious pearl which we cannot let be taken from us. Even so, the rod must always become once again the shepherd’s staff – a staff which helps men and women to tread difficult paths and to follow the Lord.

From the Catechism..

The Holy Eucharist

1324 The Eucharist is "the source and summit of the Christian life."136 "The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch."137

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Our Lord Jesus to St. Faustina - My daughter, just as you prepare in My presence, so also you make your confession before Me. The person of the priest is, for Me, only a screen. Never analyse what sort of a priest it is that I am making use of; open your soul in confession as you would to Me, and I will fill it with My light. (1725)